Gus BOFA (1885-1968). L.A.S. with drawings,... - Lot 2 - Ader

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Gus BOFA (1885-1968). L.A.S. with drawings,... - Lot 2 - Ader
Gus BOFA (1885-1968). L.A.S. with drawings, Carcassonne May 15, 1929, to a dear Doctor; 4 pages in-4. Amusing letter illustrated with watercolor drawings. Bofa humorously relates, for his collector correspondent, his trip to Carcassonne, which he illustrates with ten watercolor drawings: the ramparts, which surround the place and the date, the departing train, at the end of the letter, and 8 captioned characters: the guard, an adult cassoulet specimen, one of the last chatelaines, a police officer from the lower town, a stained glass figure, the gothic B.14 of the Hostel de la Cité, a soldier of the occupying army and a native. The guides tell of the city's distant origins, but Bofa would "more readily believe that the entire city, including the Roman and Visigoth parts, was built by Viollet-le-Duc, around 1840. This is to the credit of this romantic poet, because it is ingeniously engineered, and of great solidity, since it has remained intact until today". But tourism has taken over: "on the authentic vestiges of the 19th century, brand new vestiges are beginning to swarm, used as hotels, stores or tea-rooms, in a gothic-flamboyant style, unknown in the region"... This part of the city "reminds us of Lourdes, but without the faith". At night, the city takes on "its pure and majestic silhouette of an Ambigu setting". In the new city "which dates only from St. Louis" built on the model of American cities, one meets "an abundance of armed Annamite soldiers [2 battalions of Indochinese riflemen were garrisoned in Carcassonne], a large quantity of police officers per square meter, and an infinite number of doctors"; it is undoubtedly "because of this marvelous climate, and for their own health, that all the doctors live in Carcassonne"... Attached is a L.A.S. from Joe BRIDGE on the letterhead of the Joe Bridge Workshops, with a drawing of a Breton man in a hat, sitting at a bar in front of a row of glasses and raising a smoking chicken on the end of a spike, and a typed letter to Mr. Levy Oulmann, October 8, 1932, on the letterhead of Le Bon Petit Diable, Théâtre gai des enfants, with on the back a pen drawing signed "Joe".
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